Using a primary checklist as the base can be helpful, but teams then need to customize it to fit their exact workflow. Creating your own checklist also means you can use it in your work and refine it based on how it fares.

People will always have limitations. When it comes to remembering things, our brains can only take so much before it tends to forget some information. When managing multiple tasks at a given time, relying on our own memory is never a good option. And that’s when checklists come into play.